British Literature Survey
Poetry Recordings

assignment guidelines

Set #1
William Blake
--"The Lamb" (1789 ) p.45
--"The Tyger" (1790; 1794) p. 54 

Anna Letitia Barbauld
--"The Rights of Woman" (ca.1792-95) pp.27-28)
(Steven Leeson)
Set #2
William Wordsworth
--
"The Reverie of Poor Susan" (1797; 1800)
--"Simon Lee" (1798; 1798) pp.222-24
--"Three Years She Grew"
(1799; 1800) pp.252-53
--"London, 1802" (Sept. 1802; 1807) p. 297
(John Kim)

Set #3
William Wordsworth
--"Tintern Abbey" (1798; 1798) pp.235-38

Lord Gordon Byron
--"She Walks in Beauty . . ." (June 1814; 1815) pp. 556-57
(Caroline Stover)

Set #4
William Wordsworth
"The Old Cumberland Beggar" (1797; 1800)
(Jae Ha)

Set #5
William Wordsworth
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
(Leyla Ballantyne)

Set #6
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
--"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (1797; 1800) pp.420-22
--"Frost at Midnight" (Feb. 1798; 1798) pp.457-58
(Chris Tonog)
Set #7
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
--"Dejection: An Ode" (April 4, 1802; 1802) pp.459-62
--"Kubla Kahn" (ca.1797-98; 1816) pp.439-41
(Trevor Slaven)
Set #8
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Christabel": Part I & Conclusion to Part I
(Braden Rawls)
Set #9
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Christabel": Part 2 & Conclusion to Part 2
(Lauren Jones)
Set #10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
" Mutability" (ca.1814-15; 1816) p.701
--
"Ode to the West Wind" (1819; 1820) p.730-32
(Sara Gillmer)
Set #11
John Keats
--"Ode to a Nightingale" (May 1819; 1819) pp.849-51
--"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" ( )
(Kate Carmichael)
Set #12
John Keats
--
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" ( )
--"To Autumn" ( )
letter to Benjamin Bailey (Nov 22, 1817)
--
"Ode on Melancholy" ( )
--"Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art" ( )
(Sarah Goss)

Set #13
John Keats
--"The Eve of St. Agnes"
(Allen Bell)
Set #14
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The Blessed Damozel" (1846; 1850) pp.1574-78


Elizabeth Barrett Browning
" Mother and Poet (1861-62) pp.1195-98
(Crystal Jeon)

Set #15
William Morris

--"The Haystack in the Floods"
--"Spell-Bound"
--"A Good Knight in Prison"
(Thomas Bridges)
 

Set #16
William Morris
--"The Defence of Guinevere"
(Anna MacMonegle)
Set #17
William Morris

--"King Arthur's Tomb"
--"Golden Wings"
(Ellie LeBlond)
Set #18
Christina Rossetti
"Winter, My Secret"
"In an Artist’s Studio"
"Goblin Market" (1856; 1896) p.1586
(Cara Walker)
Set #19
Christina Rossetti
--"The Dead City" (1847)
--"Maiden Song" (1863)
--"The Prince's Progress" (1864-65)
--"'The Iniquity of the Father's Upon the Children'"
Set #20
Alfred Lord Tennyson
--"The Kraken" (1830) pp.1201-2
--"Oenone" ( )
--"The Lady of Shalott" (1831-32; 1832, 1842) pp.1204-8
(Stacey Hensley)
Set #21
Alfred Lord Tennyson
--"Ulysses" (1833; 1842) pp.1213-14
--"Tithonus" (1833, 1859; 1860) pp.1215-16

(Megan Earles) 
Set #22
Alfred Lord Tennyson

" Locksley Hall" (1837-38; 1842) pp.1219-25

Set #23
Matthew Arnold

--"Lines Written in Kensington Gardens" (1852), pp.1484-85
--"Isolation. To Marguerite" (1849; 1857) pp.1478-79

--"The Buried Life" (1852) pp.1480-82
(Tiffany Waddell)
Set #24
Matthew Arnold

--"Dover Beach" (ca.1851; 1867) pp.1492-93
--"Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (ca.1852; 1855) pp.1493-98
(Blake Strickland)
Set #25
Robert Browning
--"Porphyria's Lover" (1834; 1836, 1842) pp.1349-50
--"Pictor Ignotus" ( )
--"Abt Vogler" (1864), pp.1410-13
(Jay Godfrey)

Set #26
Robert Browning
"Andrea del Sarto"
(Jeremy Houck)
Set #27
Robert Browning
" Fra Lippo Lippi" (ca. 1853; 1855), pp.1373-82
(Turtle Harrison)
Set #28
Thomas Hardy
" The Ruined Maid" (1900; 1901) pp.1937-38
--The Convergence of the Twain" (1912; 1912, 1914) pp.1945-46

Oscar Wilde
--“The Harlot’s House” (unknown; 1885 & 1908), pp.1750-51
(Agnieszka Zmuda)
Set #29
William Butler Yeats

--"The Stolen Child" ( )
--"No Second Troy" ( )
--"Adam’s Curse" (Nov. 1902; 1902, 1903) pp.2097-98
--"Sailing to Byzantium" (1926; 1927) pp.2109-10
(Kandace Landers)

Set #30
William Butler Yeats

--"The Second Coming" (Jan. 1919; 1920, 1921) pp. 2106-7
--"The Folly of Being Comforted" (1902, 1903) pp. 2096-97

W. H. Auden

" Musée des Beaux Arts" (Dec. 1938; 1940) p.2505
(Rachael Debnam)



Paul Marchbanks
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